WLWT spoke with her family, who asked the community to pray for peace every time they see her picture in the hospital. The family said the 4-year-old had surgery and now breathing on her own.

The little girl’s mother Deaisha Hummons couldn’t quite put her relief into words when WLWT caught up with her outside Children’s Hospital.

“It made, you know, I feel something, I felt a spirit or something,” said Hummons.

Hummons did have words for the man accused of shooting of daughter.

“Thank you for turning yourself in. I'm happy he turned himself in. But for shooting my daughter, I don't' know what to say. She wasn't doing nothing. You shot her for no reason,” said Hummons.

Cincinnati Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell said investigators got a call as soon as they bumped up reward money from $1,000 to $10,000.

“Thank you to the chief to him, the city council I want all of them, for putting their word to catching this guy,” the child’s grandfather Donald Fairbanks said.

But another gunman in another child's shooting is still on the loose.

China Kinebrew, 6, lost an eye after she was shot riding her bike Fourth of July weekend.

“We are going to work that as vigorously as ever for little China Kinebrew. We want to make sure her shooter is brought to justice because it's unacceptable,” said Chief Jeffrey Blackwell.

WLWT News 5's Tammy Mutasa looked into Hicks background and learned that he served about eight months in prison for weapons charges and got out last fall. In May, he was charged with aggravated robbery, but a grand jury did not return an indictment.

Hicks is being held at the Justice Center Tuesday night. He is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.